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...shares to enable him to contribute his whole fortune in ?100 units to Neighbors Ltd. might receive "modest stipends" as follows: 1) If single, ?3 a week ($14.58); 2) If married ?4 ($19.44); 3) If a parent, 10 shillings ($2.44) extra for each child. Asked how he himself would subsist on ?3 a week, Bachelor Viscount Ennis more said: "I shall take a chamber, not too dear, and make ends meet by embroidering...
Back & forth across the paved courtyard of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, rugged as a caribou, strode last week with ten meat-eating companions. On nothing but fresh killed meat did they subsist during the week, and nothing other than fresh meat were they to eat for fourteen days. If at the end of a fortnight, none had scurvy, if in no case were legs and thighs splotched with extravasated blood, if no gums swelled spongily, if mucous membranes oozed no blood (scorbutic symptoms), then Explorer Stefansson would have proved-better than biologists could have proved...
...often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating in the warmth and humus of countries long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness." His name is Ezra Pound.* When first he appeared in London, a most erratic youth much given...
...Upon what did Their Majesties of Belgium subsist last week...
Rumors. Strange rumors escaped last week from behind the Fascist censor's dark screen so carefully adjusted to shut out all but the glories of Fascismo. It was told by a pressman at Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against...